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I just facepalmed big time at this chapter.
FOUR captains willingly gave up their bankai! >.>
I hope it'll make the fights interesting, and not just curb stop, now.

I'm hoping that Mayuri made some kind of fakes for the captains to trick the SS SR with.
But most likely, he didn't, so....
At least Byakuya and Soifon are still freakin' deadly without they're bankai.
If the SS SR were really smart, they would have stolen the captains' shikai too.

One thing with this arc is that so far it's very difficult to estimate or read the character's strengths. I mean it usually is to be honest, especially now when they all are like god mode already, but especially Ichigo feels very shallow right now. I can't see any weakness in him, yet he somehow isn't winning the battle against nazi angel, probably because of pure, boring power difference that he's gonna overcome randomly anyway.

Personality-wise he was nothing to begin with (slightly cocky and wants to pwotect his fwiends), but I used to feel like he had some sort of complexity in his combat ability at least. Now it's just like, okay, we get it, he's immensely powerful. Not that it seems to matter.

As it is now it's just not exiting, anyway.

Hmm, I reread about fifteen chapters from the Fake Karakura arc this morning, and I enjoyed it a lot, so maybe that's why I'm comparing things now.

EDIT: Manga
Okay, long story short, everybody is miserable, SS is pretty screwed over, they're all frustrated.
Now we're waiting for Ichigo to come save the day.

Hey, at least we're not getting the really-long-fights-that-the-shinigami-always-wins BS.

Hmm, I didn't know that those were not counted in the number of the manga chapters.

Manga 497

Spoiler:

Did anyone else think that the fanart, on Mangastream, of Ichigo, Uryu, and a hooded Grimmjow was an official color spread, for a second or two? xD

Kubo! Wry?! Wry did you butcher Rangiku's lovely golden locks?! D:

At least Hitsugaya seems to be keeping his cool somewhat and thinking straight enough to give Rangiku a smart order. :/

Thank you Mayuri (and Shinji too), for giving the exact correct reaction to what those four just did....

Wait, what did Unohana just say?
I sense some foreshadowing there.

Hmm, Kyoraku did make a good point there, though.
Oh wow, Kyoraku's fighting against another gunm....OH DAYUM!
Kubo is being ruthless in this arc.
I guess he got tired of all the fans' complaints.
I wonder if Unohana can heal Kyoraku's eye....

Renji, you're a freakin' idiot. *facepalm*

Akon's a pretty smart guy, he knows that they need Ichigo to come rescue them. :/

Definitely thought it was a colour spread first, I had to look at it for almost a minute to find the little differences in style :P
Having fanart when you're trying to read a chapter does sort of bother me though.

I was absolutely convinced Kyoraku was gonna die right there, cursing Kubo for hiding his bankai like all the other ones.
Aaaaand he survived. Which is cool. That gun must really have sucked if it hit him in the eye and didn't kill him.

Definitely thought it was a colour spread first, I had to look at it for almost a minute to find the little differences in style
Having fanart when you're trying to read a chapter does sort of bother me though.

I was absolutely convinced Kyoraku was gonna die right there, cursing Kubo for hiding his bankai like all the other ones.
Aaaaand he survived. Which is cool. That gun must really have sucked if it hit him in the eye and didn't kill him.

Yeah, fanart gets annoying when they throw in about as many pages as there are actual manga pages.

Spoiler:

Well, I'm just chocking it up to 'Soul Reapers are harder to kill than humans'.
Which is more true the strong the Soul Reaper is.

Apparently, there are different translations for what Unohana said in the latest chapter.
In particular, Mangahere has a different translation than Mangastream.
And I'm guess that Mangahere's translation is the correct of the two.

Ahahaha, typical Kisuke. I love his goofy demeanor. :p
And I also love how quick he can change into the serious mastermind.Hmm, and we get to see some new background R&D department people. Some Interesting designs.

Haha, even the Quincinazi monster realizes there is something unnatural about Ichigo. :p
'Blut Vene' and 'Blut Arterie', can't wait to see these expanded upon.

You know, I keep wondering when Ichigo is gonna pull out his Vizard powers and just bruteforce his way out of things. I know it isn't likely but I want it to happen. xD

And mysterious blade and Urahara's throat? Reddit was postulating that it might be Grimmjow which would be pretty awesome. :3

And the panel with Ichigo hearing all the horrifying sounds of battle...well, I kind of imagined it like that as I was seeing the chaos at the 12th Division, as I knew Ichigo was hearing it, so when i saw that page I was all "Woah exactly what I was thinking. 0_o"

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